January 29, 2018 — The purpose of this talk is to give a general understanding of why WordPress sites are hacked and how they are hacked. We then use that knowledge to figure out ways of protecting our sites from intrusion.

January 29, 2018 — Three days before the deadline and the launch of a national TV campaign – Sean’s boss turned to him and said: “I don’t think we can do this.”

Just six weeks earlier the team at Pragmatic had landed a huge API project. ITV, The National Lottery & The British Olympic Association had come together to plan and deliver Britain’s biggest ever sports day: I am Team GB. As their chosen WordPress partners, they had to get it right.

So how did it go? What did they learn along the way? And what would they do differently if they did it again? Sean will guide the audience through the different pieces of the puzzle – things they predicted, (and the things they didn’t). We will explore:

– The inner workings of an enterprise level API project
– The pressures and challenges of a tight, immovable deadline (the Olympics!)
– The creativity needed to face new challenges
– And most of all, the successes and learnings we can see looking back on it now.

The project helped a million people get off the sofa and get involved in sport that day – and we’ll look at how, with millions of people hitting the site, WordPress didn’t break a sweat.

January 29, 2018 — Working remotely has many benefits but also some obvious and non-obvious challenges. Discussions about remote work also often tend to be generic, however each discipline require its own kind of variations, and design isn’t different.

A lot of the tools available to designers are meant to be used in person, but what if we happen to work remotely, or we want to switch a product team to being remote? How to build trust, gather feedback and craft a unified vision? This talk takes inspiration from some of the practices of Automattic’s teams to overcome some of the unique challenges of remote working.

These solutions will also be beneficial to any designer who desires to engage with open source projects, as they are by definition remote.

January 29, 2018 — In this talk, we’ll look at some of the problems and issues with responsive design and then we’ll look at how to get around these by developing a theme which is not just responsive but genuinely and entirely fluid.

The aim will be a theme where the layout remains consistent, proportional, reliable, and exactly as the designer intentioned, whatever the width of the viewport.

January 24, 2018 — In this talk, I’ll explore common questions that freelancers have when deciding to build their own websites, and give some answers that will help you on your journey.

January 24, 2018 — Can WordPress help you to improve your development, design, translation or communication skills, and become a better person in general? Let’s find out!

January 24, 2018 — This talk will tackle the most common cause of slow performance, talking to external APIs. It will show how to determine that the problem, and a couple strategies for solving it.

January 24, 2018 — Turn your static “brochure” website into an active sales funnel!

Chris will cover the turning a WordPress website into the company’s growth engine – providing quantitative value by enabling education, qualification/disqualification, lead capture, nurture, conversion, consumption, and advocacy in an automated way that saves time and increases profitability.

January 24, 2018 — If you’re thinking of starting a business or if you’re new to online business, you won’t want to miss this talk. You’ll learn about my biggest mistakes and how I went from knowing NOTHING about websites to now making the majority of my income through WordPress based-websites that I personally build and manage.

January 24, 2018 — Here, Vatsal would like to address on how one can conquer own fears. How one can manage their fears in effective manner. It will be more of experience sharing and idea discussing session which pushes owners / Individual to think.

It is focused on changing their perspective towards life and producing kick-ass results.